Cherie Camp is a Canadian musician.[1] She is most noted as cowriter with John Welsman of "Oh Love", a song from the film Nurse.Fighter.Boy which won the Genie Award for Best Original Song at the 30th Genie Awards.[2]
The daughter of journalist Dalton Camp,[3] she studied music and theatre at Queen's University before starting her musical career in the late 1970s with Welsman and Jeff Kahnert in a folk band called Available Space.[1] Kahnert left the band in 1980, and their style then evolved toward jazz and blues music.[1] In 1982, she had an acting role in Necessary Angel Theatre's production of Richard Wolfe's play Passchendaele.[4]
In 1983 she released a self-titled pop album on WEA Records.[5] In this era, Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail wrote that Camp was an excellent songwriter, but that she lacked authority and charisma as a performer.[6]
In the late 1980s Camp performed backing vocals on Jane Siberry's albums The Walking and Bound by the Beauty, acted in Siberry's short film The Bird in the Gravel[7] and Peter Mettler's feature film The Top of His Head, and performed vocals for some music in Patricia Rozema's film White Room.[8] In the early 1990s, she performed with Gwen Swick and Shirley Eikhard in the trio The Three Marias.[9]
By the 2000s she had largely retired from the music business, but remained an occasional songwriting collaborator with Welsman.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Singer Cherie Camp makes a pitch for the big time". The Globe and Mail, May 12, 1981.
- ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "'Polytechnique' sweeps Genies". Canadian Press, April 14, 2010.
- ^ Zena Cherry, "Former Tely workers reunite". The Globe and Mail, October 31, 1981.
- ^ Ray Conlogue, "It's an ambitious battle plan, but total victory still elusive". The Globe and Mail, April 5, 1982.
- ^ Liam Lacey, "Still another perspective on Modern Love: Cherie Camp". The Globe and Mail, January 19, 1984.
- ^ Liam Lacey, "Songwriting is Camp's forte: In performance, however, she lacks authority". The Globe and Mail, July 5, 1984.
- ^ Mary Collier, "Siberry using tour to boost sales of her latest film". Ottawa Citizen, March 18, 1988.
- ^ Peter Goddard, "Roger rocks on as movie maker". Toronto Star, May 18, 1990.
- ^ Peggy Nagle, "Uplifting folkie : Gwen Swick tackles romantic themes that invariably end on positive note". Waterloo Region Record, August 6, 1992.